My View: Pension fix would trash Constitution

In your next “Deadbeat Illinois article,” please include your view that the answer to the pension problem is that you back legislation prohibited by the Illinois State Constitution.

Also, include that the proposal you back would render the spirit of contracts null and void.

Third, include that your prescription for rectifying the shortfall in the funds for the pensions, caused by politicians who repeatedly figured out devious ways to keep the necessary tax levels fictitiously low for Illinoisans, in order to get re-elected, is to steal money from retirees, rather than professing that, in the end, taxes will have to be increased anyway to cover the many social programs the Legislature has burdened us with.

If your view agrees with trashing language contained in the Illinois Constitution, I hope that you will remain consistent by ceasing to print the portion of the U.S. Constitution ensuring the freedom of speech and the press on your editorial page. Furthermore, if you agree that contracts no longer matter under the rule of law in this country, I hope your lawyers won’t come after me if I refuse to pay for the past weeks of your newspaper I have received.

Lastly, if you agree that stealing money promised to any individual is acceptable, I hope that the RRSTAR staff remains consistent by agreeing that the owners of the RRSTAR can steal the portion of the employees’ pensions that the company agreed to match in the past, so the company can pay the bills owed to their creditors, likened to the social service providers that the state is having trouble paying, who will be hurt by the bankruptcy of the RRSTARS’ parent company.

All I am asking is that the Editorial Board, along with the reporters, be consistent in their beliefs. Should we ask, “Who cares if the representatives we elected, who swear to uphold and protect the Constitution to the best of their ability, really mean what they swear to?”

The polished politician President Clinton once stated, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” as his outlandish defense for lying about his Monica Lewinski affair. Should we continue to allow the politicians, along with their enablers in the media, to dictate what the moral character of this country should be?

I am trying to figure out if anyone agrees that this behavior should not be allowed to continue. In the end, it is really up to all of us, especially for the reporters we rely on for the truth, as to what is right for this great country.